Consuming external API

But what if your AL extension needs to query an external API? Business Central AL in Visual Studio Code has several valuable tools to develop, test, and deploy code to call and consume external RESTful APIs. To test authentication, calls, and responses in Visual Studio Code, you can download the REST Client extension and create .http files:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.rest-client.

Be prepared!

The following example includes not only what we have learned up to this point but also some additional techniques and system methods for which you may need to look online. The solution presented here should be seen as motivation for continued self-learning!

WDTU Tidal integration

In our WDTU example, we will utilize the free Tidal streaming service API in order to find and download high-quality cover art for the music entered into the Item table. To learn more information on how to sign up for free, go to https://developer.tidal...